Salvador Fuentes
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSalvador Fuentes is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in backend systems and Ruby on Rails, currently building large-scale services at GitHub. He has a strong track record delivering production-ready tools across industries—from consumer marketing products at Brookstone Capital to SEO and deployment improvements at YP—often improving developer onboarding and operational efficiency. Salvador combines deep Rails expertise with practical DevOps skills, having containerized tooling with Docker and migrated services to orchestration platforms to reduce footprint and simplify deployments. He’s comfortable leading teams and mentoring juniors, and has presented internal technical talks to spread knowledge on topics like Docker and runtime internals. Based in Irvine, California, he pairs an academic foundation in computer science with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable systems that serve millions. Less obvious: he repeatedly bridges product and infrastructure work, building customer-facing features while streamlining the developer experience behind them.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, DavisAS, Computer Science, Mathematics, AS, Computer Science, Mathematics at College of the Desert
Spanish
Github Skills (54)
dsl10
ruby10
sinatra10
dynamodb10
rack10
architect10
kerl9
ats9
aws9
lambda9
web-development9
web-framework9
shell8
frontend8
obsolete8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fuentesjr/dotfiles
Jul 2021 - May 2026
Contributions:61 pushes, 5 branches, 1 issue in 4 years 10 months
fuentesjr/fuentesjr
May 2021 - May 2026
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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